Quite frankly, I'm still looking forward to it but if it follows the Light Novel idea of getting pass 75 floors of dungeons and bosses, they will need to make it into multiple discs to support that content. So I have a feeling that they might opt to time skip various floors if they can be bothered to produce the necessary material for each floor. But if they go all out and produce the exact material from the actual Light Novel, then it will be interesting to see if anyone is willing to grind their characters skills up and so forth. Especially the raiding parties in boss battles, makes you wonder how they going to produce that as a whole.
I wouldn't be surprised if they choose to water it down and reduce the amount of grinding to reach 1000 levels of proficiency per skill to allow casual players to enjoy the game.
Personally I want a mode where the following content has been included:
- Ultimate Difficulty Mode (If any character dies, they are dead and your game save gets deleted as a response. Prompting you to start that game play again).
- The difficulty of grinding the skills like how it is in the Light Novel (Getting the skill to master level 1000 is going to be interesting. Too bad I don't think the game content will allow aerial combat unless they tie it up with the sprint ability).
- Emulate the skills effects from the light novel or anime adaptation
- Well produced AI to control the monsters behaviors similar to how the Light Novel mentions how it adapts over the course of the battle.
- Proper boss raiding experience without connecting to the net (This will be interesting on how they plan to achieve it).
- Quests and PUG emulation (Going to be fairly interesting)
- Other components that makes it Sword Art Online (Where weapon upgrades need more materials to successfully upgrade with high probability, getting armor made, hunger system, ambushes if your search is too low to notice things that is hiding, etc).
- Other characters that has not been included or made an appearance in the Anime and Light Novel (Ashley, etc).
Feels like Dot Hack Series again but I'm hoping to see more and if it has to come to volumes or a large series of discs to swap around to play, then so be it. Just don't make it connect to the online network...
